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Douglasville is served by the Douglas County Sentinel, [58] a three-day-a-week publication that covers local and state news and by All On Georgia - Douglas, [59] a hyperlocal digital news organization that covers local, state and national news, daily. Chapel Hill News & Views also serves Douglasville as a monthly magazine with 45,000 circulation.
The county was created during Reconstruction after the American Civil War.The Georgia General Assembly named it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass but later changed the spelling to instead credit former Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas as its namesake, [3] an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Tuscola have ranged from a low of 18 °F (−8 °C) in January to a high of 88 °F (31 °C) in July, although a record low of −26 °F (−32 °C) was recorded in December 1989 and a record high of 113 °F (45 °C) was recorded in July 1954.
Originally established in 2002 as the North County News, the name was changed to the Douglas County News when the paper was purchased by publisher Becky Holm in 2008. With this transition, the paper went county-wide from a more geocentric circulation.
Coordinates: 1]: Information; School type: Public: Established: 1986: School district: Douglas County School District: CEEB code: 111104: Principal: Christopher Small: Teaching staff: 101.00 (FTE) [2]: Grades: 9-12: Enrollment: 1,844 (as of 2023-2024) [2]: Student to teacher ratio: 18.26 [2]: Color(s): Red and black : Athletics: GHSA AAAAAA: Mascot: Cougar: Newspaper: The Ant Hill Scrolls ...
Douglas County is any of twelve counties in the United States, all of which are named for Stephen A. Douglas, a Senator from Illinois from 1847 to 1861 and the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1860:
Second Douglas County office building in Castle Rock Douglas County Events Center and Fairgrounds in Castle Rock The "rock castle" of Castle Rock, Colorado. Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.
Douglas County School District Re. 1 is a school district that serves Douglas County, Colorado.The district was formed in 1958 by the consolidation of 17 smaller school districts, adding the "Re. 1" to its name to note the district's first reorganization.